Goalkeepers Quotes

• Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up.

  Artur Boruc

  Military, Mistake, Guy

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• For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place

  Brad Friedel

  Hiding, Hiding Place

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• Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

  Oliver Kahn

  Insanity, Needs, Elements

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person.

  Iker Casillas

  Football, Want, Great Person

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You score goals as a kid. Then you grow up stupid and become a goalkeeper.

  Gianluigi Buffon

  Growing Up, Stupid, Kids

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• Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

  Brad Friedel

  Jobs, Real, Team

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• It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain.

  Ian Rush

  Soccer, Football, Hero

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• If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with; if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Goal, Balls, Matter

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• Massive, massive mentality. The mental strength, you've just got to have that because you get a lot of stick, as a goalkeeper you're the last line of defence. When a goal goes in everyone looks at you, you've got to be able to deal with that. If you make a mistake, it could be a bad mistake, how are you going to recover? Are you going to react positively or are you just going to cave in?

  David Seaman

  Mistake, Goal, Looks

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• As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

  Peter Shilton

  People, Good Man, Needs

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• I'm not the sort of person who poses in their underwear. I hate the red carpet. I prefer the green grass. After the games the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that as a goalkeeper I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts.

  Manuel Neuer

  Hate, Moving, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a goalkeeper, you can't come off the bench for 10 minutes and prove your worth - it's either you're in or you're out.

  Joe Hart

  Benches, Minutes, Prove

  "Joe Hart: Man City keeper says he is 'surplus to requirements'". Interview With Steve Bower, www.bbc.com. March 10, 2017.

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• I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

  Hope Solo

  Agility, Solo, Quickness

  Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. October 06, 2011.

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• Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

  Tim Howard

  Gains, Steps, Loses

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• Some goalkeepers are really sexy with their feet. I have a little sexiness with my feet, but I don't like to bring it out.

  Tim Howard

  Sexy, Feet, Littles

  "World Cup Soccer" by Fan Zhong, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.

  Joe Hart

  Play, Wish, Clubs

  Source: www.bbc.com

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• Don't try to beat the goalkeeper...Tr y to destroy the goalkeeper.

  Steven Gerrard

  Trying, Beats

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• The goalkeeper plays in a psychological position, and he's dealing with mental things. I wanted to describe the things I've done wrong and, most of all, what I've done right, so that other people, including those in other professions, could learn from my experiences.

  Oliver Kahn

  Play, People, Done

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.

  Lev Yashin

  Mean, Past, Goal

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• Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

  Bjork

  Football, Sorry, Eggs

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• If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

  Geoff Hickson

  Motivational, Struggle, Self Improvement

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• I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

  Roger Federer

  Soccer, Player, Tennis

  CNN interview, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2007.

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• Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

  Eric Cantona

  Careers, Firsts, Sometimes

  "The Gospel of Eric Cantona". Interview with David Hirshey, www.espn.com. February 18, 2011.

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• You were only a goalkeeper.

  Diego Maradona

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

  Eduardo Chillida

  Should Have, Space, Good Relationship

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